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Jan202016 by Blaž Štremfelj17 Comments

Williams challenges the Mercedes team

"Mercedes is not invincible," said Williams team officials. “Mercedes has small wounds, but these are not visible because they are a strong team. But we need to be prepared when the wounds get bigger, ”technical manager Pat Symonds told Reuters. Last season, only three races managed to beat the Mercedes team due to their own mistakes by another team, basically it was just the Ferrari team. And why not Williams? “We certainly had too many operational errors, there’s no doubt about that,” Symonds replies, predicting a better 2016 season. “I can’t promise to be completely error-free because no one is immune to errors, but we had too many last season. We will reduce that next season, "he continued. The problem is that pr

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Williams apologized to Bottas

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Williams apologized to Finn after a mistake during Valtteri Bottas' stop because they deprived him of his potential ranking in the top four. When he first drove into the pits, the mechanics fitted three soft tires and one medium to the race car, and the commissioners therefore fined him for driving through the pits. Rob Smedley hasn’t found the right explanation for the event, and he doesn’t even want to point a finger at anyone who is supposed to be at fault. "Two old men can do it. First, we apologize to Bottas for ruining his race where he fought Sebastian Vettl and Romain Grosjean. Second, we must not blame individuals. We must go as a group of people and look back on what happened. , "Smedley thinks. Bottas summed up his feelings: "I am very disappointed. I have never heard of anything like this happening. Amp

Jul292015 by Klara Ljubi1 How

Massa: The result in Hungary is just a coincidence

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Felipe Massa says the result in Hungary, where the Williams racers were left without points for the World Championship, while they had been fighting for the win in Silverstone three weeks earlier, was just a coincidence. Massa finished the race twelfth and Valtteri Bottas a place behind him. The Brazilian said of the problems: "The pace was very, very poor, but I don't know why. We were slow in the background in the crowd, especially with medium tires. I couldn't race at full speed, we missed the overall grip of the car. In my opinion, it's was the best part of the race at the end when I fitted the soft tires, but even then I wasn't overly fast. I couldn't keep up and it's definitely not good. " Williams' race car was not expected to suit him in the Hungaroring anyway, as both racers failed to meet

Jun162015 by Blaž Štremfelj1 How

Williams wants more points than Ferrari in Austria

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At Williams, they are convinced that the Red Bull team can fight for high places on home soil. Last year, Felipe Massa gave the team from Grove in the Austrian Red Bull Ring the best starting position, while his teammate Valtteri Bottas finished third, behind the dominant Mercedes race cars. Williams in Monaco did not go according to plan, but they drove a much better race in Canada, ten days ago, where Bottas and Massa picked up points for third and sixth place. The track in Austria, according to chief engineer Rob Smedley, is said to fit Williams' FW37 race car. “Behind us is a race where we were fast and at the same time made good use of the tires, so we can aim for the top spots again in Austria,” Smedley said. "On this track, for a good result, p

Mar302015 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Smedley: Williams still has a lot of work to do

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Team boss Williams believes in his team, but at one point warns that they need to improve the whole package if they want to stay at the forefront: "We need to develop the whole package. We need to work hard and develop faster than others if we want to stay at the forefront of Formula One teams. " In Sepang, Williams had quite a few problems, especially with the tires, as it was really very hot. This, in turn, led to three stops, while Ferrari made only two. Rob knows that they have a worse package than Ferrari and Mercedes, but according to him it is not impossible to catch them: "Our package is worse than the two leading teams, but we are not the worst in terms of wear and tear, but we are not the best. Why can they make a stop less during the race than we do? It's crucial we'll have to

Dec252014 by Klara LjubiNo Comments

Massa: Williams operates as a new team after the changes

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Felipe Massa believes Williams, after all the changes they have introduced in the last year, is a completely new team compared to Ferrari, where the Brazilian spent eight years before joining the team from Grove. The latter finished the 2013 season in ninth place, and this year they climbed to third. The credit can certainly be attributed in part to reinforcements among employees such as Pat Symonds and Rob Smedley. Many innovations, according to Massa, are to blame for the fact that the organization in the team is not the best and that in this respect he can attribute the point to the former employer. "Williams is like a new team this year with a lot of new people and different things, but in the organization itself they are still behind Ferrari and probably some other teams as well. It wasn't perfect at Ferrari either, but as a big team you were definitely sick.

Nov102014 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Smedley disappointed in himself over Mass's mistake

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Williams boss Rob Smedley was disappointed in himself after the race in Brazil, because as he himself described, he should have foreseen the difficulties in changing garages: wrong. During the race, however, when Massa drove into the pits, there were also McLarn mechanics there, but they don’t have much different clothes and problems arose. The racers drive through the pits at 80 km / h, and the view is also obscured by the low sun, which is why he drove in the wrong place. I should have anticipated these problems and warned the racer. ”Despite all the problems they had at Williams in Sao Paulo, they scored 16 points worth their weight in gold. Namely, Williams currently has an enviable place on the construction scale, as he is even ahead of F

Nov52014 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Modifying a virtual safety car

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During the Brazilian racing weekend, they will test a new virtual safety car system in Formula One, after testing it for the first time last weekend in Austin. Namely, after the accident of Jules Bianchi in Japan, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) decided that safety should be taken to a higher level, especially during the yellow flags. Namely, as we know, racers between yellow flags reduce, but not enough, and a safety car would be too time consuming (mainly due to television rights). In the USA, they tested a virtual safety car for the first time, in the first and second training, which is now even better for Brazil. Fernando Alonso described his vision of a virtual safety car as follows: "I think the idea is fine, something like we agreed

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Felipe with problems due to leftover Lewis tires

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Brazilian Felipe Massa, who started today's race from the ninth starting position, became entangled in the remnants of the fight between Hamilton and Rosberg during the race. Namely, they were given in the turn of Les Combes, where it exploded in the second round. The Brazilian mentioned that he lost the pressure force with the FW36, which cost him points, while his teammate Valtteri Bottas finished the race in fourth place: “In the second or third lap, I picked up the remains of tires and race cars from Lewis. . These debris remained at the bottom of my race car, causing me to no longer have the right pressure force. The race car was very difficult to drive, even up to two seconds per lap I was slower. During the first stops, the debris was not completely cleared, which caused me to lose a lot in the second part of the race as well. V pol d

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Williams conceded a missed opportunity

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In today’s qualifiers, Williams faced quite a few problems. Among the omebe worthy ones, it is worth mentioning the problems with the brakes and settings of the car. The car was set to compromise between dry and wet, which was obviously not optimal. Bottas was thus the fastest on the dry track in the last third practice in the morning, but then won only sixth place in the wet qualifiers. Massa, on the other hand, had brake problems and thus finished in ninth place. After the qualifications, Bottas said that they could even compete with Mercedes, but because of the situation they were far behind: “The situation did not help us, we would have been much faster in the dry. The settings were right for the dry track, and we couldn’t do anything on the wet. Besides, I’m not in the last part of the qualifiers either